PHP Editor for Mac OS X?

cbn_noodles

Hi everyone.

I'm in real need of a decent PHP text editor that I can use on Mac OS X.

I've tried jEdit and don't really like it.

I've played with BBEdit a bit...but was just wondering what you all used?

I use UltraEdit on my Windows machine which is a dream...shame about the lack of an OS X version.

cbn_noodles

No Mac OS X developers out there? All Windows/Linux?

cahva

I used Jext-editor before I purchased DreamweaverMX. Its an editor which can be used for many languages. Its not as good as Dreamweaver for PHP coding but I liked it.

Jext homepage

Reformed

I honestly think I have explored every possible php editor for OS X. I think I finally found a home. The best editor is Zend Studio http://zend.com

Zend Studion is the best (but a little slow). Others worth mentioning are Eclipse with the phpeclipse plugin, Dreamweaver MX, VIM, and Quanta Gold.

cbn_noodles

It sounds silly...but what I'm really missing is an editor that auto indents after the curly brackets { and then tabs back after closing a bracket.

All the ones I've tried, I've had to tab manually...which is a pain.

Does Zend Studio auto-tab?

I did try downloading the demo - but I couldn't seem to get it to run.

Reformed

It does auto tab curlies. That's a sweet feature too. It also does code hints, outlines classess (even your own) and has excellent debugging. What version of OS X are you using and have done the Java 1.4 SDK upgrade?

The newest version of Zend Studio is designed to run on OS X with the latest Java SDK as far as I know. I'm running it on a Power Book G4 400mgz and it's a little slow, but adequate. Let me know if you have any problems getting it to run.

greg252

I use BBEdit on os X and have no problem with it. It does exactly what I need. I've tried Zend, but the price was prohibitive (and also very slow on my iMac). I've heard of people using dev tools (project manager- on install disk) with a php template, but I have yet to use it seriously.

My suggestion is BBEdit.

cbn_noodles

Do you know of a way so that it auto-tabs the curly's? That's the only thing stopping me from using any of these editors.

Thanks Reformed, I got it up and running this time and it's great. The Auto-tab saves so much faffing about.

Reformed

I agree that Zend is a bit slow on a Mac. Does bb have any type of parser plugins or anything? I like bb because it's likedy split fast and well built, but it doesn't manage projects well. I get burried in all of the floating windows. Do you know if there is a way to manage projects better with bb?